MAN KILLS GIRLFRIEND, HIMSELF, POLICE SAY

Despite desperate attempts to get help, a Plainfield Township woman was killed Thursday when her boyfriend shot her as she pounded in vain on a neighbor's door, police said Friday.

The boyfriend then went back into the home the couple shared with their 2-year-old daughter and fatally shot himself in the head, said Will County Sheriff's Police Lt. David Van Dyke. The case has been ruled a murder-suicide, he said Friday.

Danielle Ogden, 22, and David Yurgil, 29, apparently had a violent quarrel in their home at 23522 Feeney Drive about 2:15 p.m., police said.

After Ogden was beaten in the head with a heavy-duty flashlight, she fled the house, leaving behind the couple's daughter, police said.

Ogden ran to a neighbor's house for help, but no one was home and apparently no one else heard the woman's cries, Van Dyke said.

"Everyone was at work, and the kids were still in school," he said. "She went to the next house, looking for help, where we believe she was shot."

A woman was at home where Ogden was shot, Van Dyke said, but "everything happened so quickly, she didn't hear the cries."

After receiving a 911 call about 2:30 p.m., police found Ogden's body at the front door of the neighbor's house, Van Dyke said.

Investigators rushed to the couple's home, where they found Yurgil's body in the living room.

The girl was found safe in another room, Van Dyke said. The child is in the temporary custody of Ogden's mother, he said.

Autopsy results were pending late Friday.

Van Dyke said investigators were unable to find out what triggered the altercation.

The couple apparently moved to the Peerless Estates subdivision recently and few neighbors knew details about them other than that Yurgil worked as a mechanic, he said.

Police had no record of domestic violence calls to the home, orders of protection or other signs of domestic abuse, Van Dyke said.